The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 173 The Old Fox's Calculation
When a child is born, the whole family is filled with more laughter.

Because it was a normal birth, I was discharged from the hospital very quickly.

Liu Tao felt the joy of becoming a father for the first time and learned how to hold a baby.

With one more child, there is more laughter in the house.

After being discharged from the hospital, Zhu Lin officially began her confinement period.

Confinement after childbirth is a big deal for any woman. If the confinement period is not done properly, a woman will suffer from a lot of illnesses.

Liu Tao also started to deal with business.

At the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, Liu Tao happened to be in a meeting, and the leader specifically called his name to attend the meeting.

This meeting was about the reform and development of the third-line factories.

"According to the current investigation, the third-line factories mainly have the following problems." Wang Baoguo reported the investigation results.

The international situation has undergone a turning point. Although the danger of war still exists, the forces for peace have greatly developed and the world is gradually moving from confrontation to dialogue.

Some third-line enterprises that were originally established to produce military products in preparation for the sudden outbreak of war were facing many difficulties such as a sharp reduction in military product missions, idle production lines, declining economic efficiency, serious corporate losses, and an unstable workforce.

Coupled with the legacy issues caused by improper layout and site selection during construction, some companies have reached the point where they can no longer sustain themselves.

After the national policy of reform and opening up and focusing on economic construction was adopted, corresponding instructions were also given to the third-line factories, which included the eight-character policy of "adjustment, reform, rectification and improvement".

The Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and other departments formed a joint investigation team to conduct an in-depth investigation into the situation in the third-line factories.

After hearing this, Liu Tao was secretly shocked.

Many third-tier factories have been in arrears of wages for one or two months.

In the most cases, wages were in arrears for more than a year.

It can be said that it is very shocking!
The time has come for the Third Line military factories to be reformed.

Although the third-line military factories are now under the jurisdiction of the provincial defense management offices, rather than directly managed by the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

However, as the department in charge of the country's conventional weapons work, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building still has an obligation to do so.

Liu Tao's heart sank as well. He had not expected the situation at the Third Line Military Factory to be so serious.

You should know that there are several third-line factories merged into Panshan Machinery Factory, and six of them have developed well because of the relationship with Panshan Machinery Factory as supporting factories of Panshan Machinery Factory.

In other words, among the third-line military factories outside Yunnan Province, only two can continue to operate without relying on funds allocated by their superiors.

In this case, only the third-line military factories under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building were investigated. In addition, there were also third-line military factories under the jurisdiction of the Third Ministry of Machine Building, the Sixth Ministry of Machine Building, etc.

Now it is the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building that has the money, and is the most proactive in approaching the issue.

"Yunnan Province is currently in the best condition. Basically, there are no problems. The Yunnan Provincial National Defense Management Office will mainly assist in dealing with other third-line military factories." Wang Baoguo said.

The so-called other third-line factories refer to other third-line military factories such as those that manufacture mines.

This category does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

Wang Baoguo reported the situation of the third-line factories in the weapons industry system in each province one by one. Wang Baoguo's report also introduced the situation of other third-line factories in these regions, so that everyone could have a more accurate understanding.

For example, your province is a key area for the Third Line construction. Three major national defense and military industrial bases are located in your province. They are the 061 aerospace base, the 011 aviation base, the 083 electronics industry base and other bases. It can be said that your province is one of the provinces with the most Third Line factories.

Guizhou's Aviation Industry 011 Industrial Base is the highest scientific and production base for my country's aerospace industry construction during the Third Line period. The entire industrial base has nearly 50 companies with a total of employees. The affiliated companies are centered in Bijie and are spread across several surrounding counties and cities.

There are also the 061 Aerospace Industrial Base, the 083 Electronic Industrial Base, etc., all of which are large in scale.

The factories under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building mainly produced conventional weapons, and there were also quite a few of them.

Before the Third Front Construction, the industry in Gui Province was almost blank, with only a few small and medium-sized factories and some small workshops of handicraftsmen. During the "Third Front Construction" stage, the state decided to establish a number of leading enterprises in Gui Province, and at the same time moved a number of factories from other provinces to Gui Province.

In the field of weapons industry, a total of 18 factories were built, such as Guangxi Jianhua Machinery Factory, Dahua Chemical Factory, People's Machinery Factory, Longjiang Machinery Factory, Nanning Mould Center, Junling Machinery Factory, Second Chemical Plant, Xinghuo Machinery Factory, etc.

As for Sichuan Province, it can be said to be the center of the Third Line Construction!

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sichuan Province was the rear area and naturally the center of the Third Front construction.

During the Third Front construction, one-third of the funds provided by the state to all the Third Front provinces were used for the construction of Sichuan Province. The Third Front construction also changed the economic structure of Sichuan Province. Heavy industry occupied a dominant position in the industrial structure of Sichuan Province. Based on heavy metal processing, power materials, and transportation, and guided by high-end science and technology industries, a new industrial structure was established, and the output value of heavy industry accounted for more than half of the total industrial output value.

The entire Third Line construction in Sichuan Province focuses on the Panzhihua steel base, the military industrial supporting facilities centered on the mountain city, and the three railway trunk lines of Chengkun, Sichuan-Guizhou, and Hunan-Chongqing. There are as many as 73 factories under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building!
It can be said that Sichuan Province has the largest number of military factories in the weapons industry system.

This number ranks first among the four southwestern provinces.

"Comrade Liu Tao, how about transferring part of the weapons industry of the four southwestern provinces to Panshan Machinery Factory?" The leader looked at Liu Tao.

Liu Tao's scalp tingled. There were so many weapons industry factories, more than a hundred in number, with more than 200,000 employees, and if their families were included, the number would exceed one million.

He finally understood why his leader wanted him to attend the meeting. It turned out that he was waiting for him here.

They are a bunch of old foxes plotting against him.

Liu Tao smiled bitterly and said, "Dear leaders, our Panshan Machinery Factory is still digesting the work. We can't finish it this year, so how can we take on this heavy responsibility?"

Liu Tao shook his head repeatedly.

"If it doesn't work this year, there's always next year," the leader said. "Young people should be brave enough to take on responsibilities. Right now, the ministry's priority is to save the large military factories. We have to take care of the First and Second Machine Factories."

The First Machine Plant, one of the 156 major projects aided by the Soviet Union, is the country's largest tank manufacturing plant and has a very important status.

The Second Machine Factory, also located in Inner Mongolia, produces tanks and large special vehicles like the First Machine Factory. However, the Second Machine Factory's specialty is manufacturing large-caliber suppressive artillery.

These are all super-large military factories, and their status and influence surpass Panshan Machinery Factory.

Panshan Machinery Factory used to be just a third-line factory, a small and medium-sized military factory, and it has only really risen in the past two years.

However, super-large military factories such as the First Machine Factory and the Second Machine Factory are different. They play a vital role in the national defense construction of the Republic. Countless leaders have come out of these factories, and those factory leaders can be directly promoted to leaders of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

In principle, the goal was to convert third-line factories from military to civilian use, but investigations showed that the provincial defense management offices and local industrial bureaus had no way of properly placing these third-line military factories.

Not to mention other systems, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building is rich now, so it will naturally not watch the military factories belonging to its system being handed over to the local industrial bureau and the Yunnan Provincial Defense Management Office.

Panshan Machinery Factory, which had a large amount of money and capabilities, was targeted by the leaders.

(End of this chapter)